This test seems to fail to account for the fact that pressures are not exerted the same when someone opens the phone with their hands. This could result in increased focal pressure on the display due to torsion in the chassis.
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The Verge: Samsung galaxy fold screens breaking after a day of use for users
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This test seems to fail to account for the fact that pressures are not exerted the same when someone opens the phone with their hands. This could result in increased focal pressure on the display due to torsion in the chassis.
That's what I want to know too.
There's a lot of talk about not making it so "easy" to take off, but we don't actually have any idea exactly how much force Gurman or Mkbhd actually used to remove it.
Has Jerryrigs been given one yet? Or has everything apple pro yet released a video where he's unloading bullets at one...
Which means all of 2 review units have had actual display issues.
I would think that if you have kids forget about it, they'll peel stuff when you're not looking
Do you have this pre-ordered?
I get wanting clear and true information to be out there, but you seem particularly passionate about this.
Considering how much they spent on it there is no chance of it being pulled.
This thread will be fun to visit when these things fail in the hands of consumers. I don't expect them to hold up very well.
If it has a 20%, even a 10% failure rate.. they're going to wish it was pulled. Again, even for the units that haven't failed, people have had these for only a few days.
It ain't going to be forgotten though considering how much they spent on R&D on this device. This isn't a Note 7, which can be easily be binned.
Delayed maybe. But I doubt they'd just pull it or forget it especially as Huawei is releasing their fold phone soon. Would be embarsssing for Samsung and further cement Huawei position as currently probably the top phone manufacturer.
that unboxingtherapy or what's his face shill is probably working on 5 videos right now trying to tell you how spending 2k on faulty hardware is ok
don't worry, samsung is on it
If this is a real issue with the device, this is going to hurt every manufacturer of folding phones.
Why is he a shill? Because he doesn't bend to Apple? I mean, if he is a shill, you are a pot and he's the kettle.
I think the Huawei might suffer from similar issues eventually. The R&D that Samsung spent ain't lost though, it can be put to future use and they have a head start in foldables as of now. But I can still see them delaying it for now with it being "AirPower'ed" down the line with them unveiling a new design when the tech is more mature.
It's probably due to the fact that since people started getting review units 2 days ago, I've been reading all the articles I could and watching every YouTube video I could and have seen nothing like the kind of "THIS PRODUCT IS DOOMED" issues portrayed in this thread.
Then I open this thread and see that apparently there's a massive issue.
Then I see that out of the four reports, two were self inflicted damage, with the most widely spread of the two from a guy who dishonestly failed to mention that he fucked up the screen himself. Then I see his official job title is "Apple and Devices News for Bloomberg" and I start to get skeptical.
I check on all the tech youtubers who I saw have the fold.......... no issues whatsoever. Mkbhd damaged his unit himself, but was honest enough to make that clear.
I just think it's weird that all the people on YouTube who have already uploaded or ar still filming hours of footage of them using their Folds in and out of their studios, none of them are reporting on what appears to be such a product killing issue.
Which makes me wonder If it actually is?
One cnbc tech news guy and...... the verge suffer two completely different issues and....
SAMSUNG GALAXY FOLD HAS MAJOR SCREEN ISSUE WITH MANY REPORTING THEIR SCREENS DIED AFTER JUST DAYS OF USE!!!!!!
Type in Galaxy Fold in Google and that's all you see. The many youtubers who have the fold aren't making the doomsday videos, but the people who don't are starting to pile in with the click bait videos that only reference the articles you'll see in Google, which turns out only consists of two actual units having issues.
I just think I'll wait for more news of a widespread issue that has an actual issue that can be narrowed down rather than two separate issues that doesn't exist anywhere else among the tech reviewing world.
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What gets me is that these are review units. You'd think they'd send out the best built products to reviewers and influencers to prevent negative pre-release news.
If that's true, damn.
If that's true, damn.
A WaPo reporter released this via Twitter:
That's useful for when someone claims every single unit is defective.
A WaPo reporter released this via Twitter:
Well that's the thing with this, we don't know that it's widespread yet, what even is the actual issue (is it even a defect?), and people are losing their heads over it as if they were gonna drop 2k themselves.
It's mostly fanboys who wanted this product to fail to begin with.
Being an Apple only user myself (since the iPhone released), I think you may be right lol.
These phones must be apple shills then because they sure don't seem to bend right either
Which is sad as Samsung could have easily played it safe like Apple and wait for the others to release the foldable phones first and then react. They took the risk and they deserve credit for trying to pioneer new stuff. Yes it's costly, but it's not for everyone and the price should come down in a few years when most manufacturers are releasing one.
Companies should be credited for trying to deliver something new.
As stagnant as phones have become, I'm inclined to agree, but I guess the old adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is something that will forever prevail. Or like that other poster said: fanboys.
Yeah, it's a shame. It could have been something great. But here we are.
Or they could wait until the tech is actually ready rather than trying to force it, if this breaking issue turns out to be more widespread than just a handful of units.
It probably doesn't do anything, it's just something they can point to in order to explain why they aren't giving you your money back. "Oh see you voided the warranty, lol too bad"
Just because you can throw something out on the market that's got some innovation doesn't mean that you should unless it can live up to some quality standards. This isn't a $99 device, it's $2000. There should be some responsibility in putting out a product this expensive, instead of something that could possibly break within days of normal usage. Who knows if this is wide spread or not with the units manufactured, but being first to market could potentially be an issue for Samsung if the units are defective.
this is the same company that sold phones that caught on fire and were banned on airplanes
you think they give a shit about quality control? at-least this one just breaks easily and doesn't try to kill you ....so it's an improvement
I just don't understand how you come to release a 2k phone that has something on the screen that even looks as though there is a chance that it is removable.
As someone above mentioned, it sounds like something added last minute because they discovered an issue in testing.
Otherwise, why not put the plastic sheet under the edges of the phone to make it non-removable? If this can be pulled right off, good luck taking it out of your pocket a few dozen times without the edge peeling.
Most people probably won't be pocketing this thing while it's open. But the design seems insanely bad regardless.
That's precisely what I was thinking. Even more so when you take into account that it doesn't fold fully closed and there is enough room for potentially having things go in that gap. I know you probably don't want to be putting it in your pocket with other stuff but it will happen eventually. If I accidentally end up putting a card or train ticket or something in that pocket without thinking, it could easily slide in the gap and start to chip up at the corner/edge of the film.
As you say, it seems like a last minute addition but that begs the question of how you can design, prototype, test and ultimately mass produce a product where this problem doesn't come up. What an absolute shambles.
I bought a PS4 at launch and has no issues with it. Wasn't the controller the biggest issue? I know some of them were really loud, but I don't know if I had a decent unit in terms of fan noise.
